Southern Traditonal Singers: The Social Harp: Early American Shape Note Songs

Singing school

Jolly Soldier

Buonaparte

Marion

Musgrove

Wake Up

The Beggar

Heavenly Meeting

Raymond

Good-by

Zion's Walls

O Save the Royal Band

Few Days

Weeping Mary

Come, Tell me of Your Ship

Heavenly King

The Traveller

To the Land

Lisbon

Leading Sacred Harp singers from Georgia and Alabama, led by Hugh McGraw, perform songs from the 1855 work The Sacred Harp. This collection by John Gordan McCurry (a farmer and singing master rom upper Georgia) was neglected for over a century. This album is one of the few in which any of the 19th century shape note compositions can be heard in their original three-voice settings.